Biodiversity of Environmental Leptospira: Improving Identification and Revisiting the Diagnosis

Leptospirosis is an important environmental disease and a major threat to human health causing at least 1 million clinical infections annually. There has recently been a growing interest in understanding the environmental lifestyle of Leptospira. However, Leptospira isolation from complex environmen...

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Main Authors: Roman Thibeaux, Dominique Girault, Emilie Bierque, Marie-Estelle Soupé-Gilbert, Anna Rettinger, Anthony Douyère, Michael Meyer, Gregorio Iraola, Mathieu Picardeau, Cyrille Goarant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00816/full